No area in N.Y. saw unemployment decline last year

8:51 PM,
Mar. 12, 2013

Written by

No area of New York had a decline in unemployment between January 2012 and January 2013, state Labor Department statistics Tuesday showed.

It's the second year in a row where not one area of the state had its unemployment rate drop.

State officials have argued that the unemployment is not a fair gauge of the state's economy because as the economy improves, more people are looking for work, and thus the unemployment rate increases. In a report last week, the state Labor Department said the state created 29,600 jobs in January, a record 17 consecutive months of private-sector job growth. ...